Company Advances Long-Term Treasury Diversification Strategy Through Physical Gold Reserves and Gold-Linked Digital Assets
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) (“VCI Global” or the “Company”), today announced the launch of its Strategic Gold Treasury Program, a long-term treasury framework and capital allocation initiative designed to integrate physical gold holdings and gold-linked digital reserve assets into the Company’s broader treasury and platform strategy.
The program is positioned as part of the Company’s broader initiative to enhance treasury optionality, strengthen balance sheet flexibility, and evaluate emerging reserve asset structures within the evolving real-world asset (“RWA”) and digital asset landscape.
As part of the program, the Company intends to establish a diversified reserve structure comprising physical gold holdings and Tether Gold (“XAUT”), a gold-backed digital asset issued by Tether.
According to publicly available market data from CoinGecko, Tether is the issuer of USDT, which is widely reported to be the largest stablecoin by market capitalization and circulation. Tether Gold (“XAUT”) is a gold-backed digital asset issued within the Tether ecosystem. Based on issuer disclosures and periodic attestation reports, XAUT is designed to represent ownership of physical gold held in custody arrangements backed by allocated gold reserves.
VCI Global believes that the convergence of traditional reserve assets and blockchain-based financial infrastructure represents an emerging area of institutional treasury evolution, particularly in the context of diversification, liquidity management, and alternative reserve frameworks.
The Strategic Gold Treasury Program is expected to serve as a foundational component of the Company’s evolving treasury architecture. Implementation, if any, is expected to be phased and conditional, subject to market conditions, financing considerations, operational readiness, and applicable regulatory requirements.
In parallel, the Company may evaluate structured treasury and financing approaches leveraging reserve-linked assets as part of broader strategic initiatives, including potential exposure to gold-related opportunities, RWA infrastructure development, and long-duration capital deployment strategies.
Management Commentary
“The Strategic Gold Treasury Program reflects our continued focus on disciplined treasury management and long-term reserve diversification through a structured framework that may include both physical gold and gold-linked digital assets,” said management. “We believe this approach may enhance balance sheet flexibility and support more resilient capital allocation over time, subject to market conditions, regulatory considerations, and internal approvals.”
The Company emphasized that the program remains subject to treasury allocation decisions, financing availability, operational execution, regulatory considerations, and prevailing market conditions.
About VCI Global Limited
VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) is an AI-native operating platform designed to scale and optimize businesses through centralized intelligence, data, and capital discipline.
The Company operates a platform-based model in which subsidiaries, affiliates, and portfolio companies plug into VCI Global’s centralized AI, data, governance, and capital allocation systems, enabling faster execution, improved capital efficiency, and scalable growth across multiple industries.
VCI Global’s platform centralizes AI-enabled execution, standardized KPI frameworks, financial and governance controls, and strategic capital allocation, while operating businesses focus on revenue generation, customer relationships, and local execution.
The Company maintains exposure across advisory, AI, and digital infrastructure, digital assets, energy, automotive, and consumer sectors, and continuously evaluates opportunities to scale, spin off, divest, or discontinue businesses based on performance, scalability, and return on capital.
VCI Global’s platform-centric approach is designed to enhance productivity, improve IPO readiness, and unlock long-term value through disciplined growth and selective capital deployment.
